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Mum Club is a necessarily confronting play and a tribute to Blak motherhood

Mum Club is a much-needed narrative for our stages.

The Conversation · Aug 31

Game. Set. Match. is a love letter to truth-telling. It is nothing short of brilliant

Colonisation in this country has always been carried on the bodies of Aboriginal women. Many of these women, our grandmothers and aunties, were forced into domestic service in the homes of wealthy white families.

The Conversation · May 7

A man and a woman meet at the tennis. What happens next in this new play will have everyone talking

Writer and actor Megan Wilding describes her play Game. Set. Match. as ‘a romcom, until it isn’t’. And at every stage of its development, someone has told her, ‘Maybe this is too much’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 29

The Seagull review – Sigrid Thornton and Toby Schmitz star in contemporary take on Chekhov

Andrew Upton’s adaptation transplants the play’s ensemble to Australia in the early 2000s, where they discover the cost of art and thwarted dreams

The Guardian - AU · Nov 26, 2023

Sydney Theatre Company's new The Importance of Being Earnest: fresh, funny and completely joyous

It is easy to forget that when Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was first written and performed in February 1895, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was already 16 years old. Both plays, in different ways, expose the foundations of society (marriage; class; money; property) to searching critique.

The Conversation · Sep 11, 2023

We've been editing Shakespeare's plays for 400 years – but does a new Australian production of The Tempest idealise the Bard?

Review: The Tempest, directed by Kip Williams, Sydney Theatre Company.

The Conversation · Nov 21, 2022